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E-book: Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination

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  • Series: Religion in the Modern World
  • Pub. Date: 10-Aug-2018
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781538115015
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  • Format: PDF+DRM
  • Series: Religion in the Modern World
  • Pub. Date: 10-Aug-2018
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781538115015

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With this, Martin Nguyen aims to bring Muslim theology into the present day. Modern Muslim Theology argues that theology is a creative process, rather than a purely academic pursuit, and discusses how the Islamic tradition can help contemporary practitioners negotiate their relationships with God, with one another, and with the rest of creation.

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Informed by his deep reading of scripture and the Islamic tradition, as well as his grounding in the academic study of religion, Nguyen offers a theology that is of interest to academics as well as to people of faith, and to those who wish to learn more about Islam regardless of their orientation. -- Zayn Kassam, Pomona College Nguyen successfully inhabits the pastoral voicethe book is as much an intellectual and spiritual reflection as a motivating call to action. -- Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis This is a courageous and bold voice which brings together the layers of tradition and worship in an engaged conversation on the topic of theological ethics. Learned as well as accessible, Martin Nguyen shows how a lived Islam reflects the ethical life Muslims around the world as well as in America practice and cherish. It is a fascinating search of a scholar and an engaged participant for a Muslim ethical narrative in late modernity. -- Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(16)
Why Theology?
1(2)
Muslim Theology
3(3)
A Muslim Theology of Engagement
6(1)
Genealogy of the Book
7(2)
Arrangement of the Book
9(1)
Conventions of the Book
10(1)
Notes
11(6)
1 The Language of Theology
17(12)
Theology
17(3)
The Horizon of Engagement
20(3)
The Measure of Revelation
23(3)
Notes
26(3)
2 The Measure of Modern Time
29(24)
A Pound of Flesh
29(2)
Life Without End
31(3)
The Time That Remains
34(3)
End of the End Times
37(4)
Crisis Continuous
41(6)
Notes
47(6)
3 Imagining Tradition
53(20)
The Question of Tradition
53(3)
The Construction of Tradition
56(4)
The Ka'ba as Tradition
60(9)
Notes
69(4)
4 The Religious Imagination
73(30)
Imagine
73(5)
Reason and Rationalities
78(3)
The Muslim Imaginative Tradition
81(5)
The Measure of the Religious Imagination
86(4)
Notes
90(13)
5 Revelation and Response
103(16)
The Qur'an as Revelation
103(3)
In the Moment of Revelation
106(9)
Toward a Theology of Prostration
115(1)
Notes
116(3)
6 Faith in the Tradition
119(36)
A Life of Faith
119(3)
The Measure of Faith
122(6)
Faith in the Changing Tradition
128(4)
A Life of Change
132(8)
Faith in the Forge
140(5)
Notes
145(10)
7 Theology in Prostration
155(26)
Prayer
155(3)
A Life of Prayer
158(2)
Prayer in Prostration
160(2)
The Timing of Prayer
162(3)
The Form of Prayer
165(4)
The Prostration of Response
169(1)
The Prostration of Protest
170(5)
Pray as Though It Is Your Last Prayer
175(3)
Notes
178(3)
Conclusion
181(6)
Where We Have Been
181(2)
Where We Shall Go
183(2)
Notes
185(2)
Bibliography
187(12)
Arabic Texts
187(2)
General Sources
189(10)
Index of Qur'anic Verses 199(2)
Index 201(6)
About the Author 207
Martin Nguyen is associate professor of Islamic religious traditions at Fairfield University, where he is also the faculty chair for diversity. He is the author of the book Sufi Master and Quran Scholar.